Julian Lennon

Cynthia Lennon, who had a short, turbulent marriage to Beatles star John Lennon in the 1960s, died Wednesday at her home in Majorca, Spain. She was 75.

The cause was cancer, according to a statement on her son Julian Lennon's website.

Cynthia and John Lennon met at the Liverpool College of Art in the late 1950s. "He was always around, always surrounded by people who were in awe of him," she said in a 1995 London Times interview. "He was embarrassingly funny, and you couldn't resist it."

Author Hunter Davies, who wrote the only authorized Beatles biography in 1968, described her as "quiet...

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